Talk:Leo and Diane Dillon
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Actually, the Dillons were illustrating the interiors of influential magazines such as Galaxy, as early as the late 1950's, well before Harlan Ellison became an influence in S-F circles, in the mid to late Sixties.
They, along with Emsh, Dick Powers and (occasionally, for his intermittent cover art with F&SF) Chesley Bonsetell were the premier SF artists, of their day (Kelly Freas has to be mentioned because of his multiple Hugos for illustration but the above, I believe, deserve merit for what they did in the formative boom years of the mid-20th century.
I remember, in the nineties, attempting to contact them, for an interview, as I resided in the same neighborhood (Kane Street, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn) as they.
Thanks for your work on the article. Capitalistroadster 23:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Editing Done To This Article on 12 September 2006
I made extensive changes to the article on Leo and Diane Dillon today, 12 September 2006; the work is not complete, and I will return to complete it as soon as possible. I have been friends with the Dillons since 1989. During a recent visit, I showed them the Wikipedia entry about themselves, which included the line, "Leo is of African-American descent, and Diane is of Jewish descent". At Diane's request, I removed this line, given that she told me she is not of Jewish descent, and is therefore inaccurate.
The entries under the headings Education, Freelance Work, Picture Books, Chapter Books, Awards, Memberships, Courses Taught, and Publications About the Dillons, were extracted from information in the Dillons' personal database of their work, with further editing by me to verify the information, including authors' names. All of the bibliographic information in the article can be verified by searching databases such as OCLC's WorldCat Beta, which includes catalogue records from over 1.3 billion items in over 18,000 libraries. As an academic librarian myself, I have access to the full database, known as OCLC WorldCat, which along with my own collection of the Dillon's illustrated works, I used to further verify the bibliographic information in this article.
I would appreciate any feedback or comments, and I will advise the Dillons of the progress made editing this article.
Podbay 06:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
